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Word: cummingses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern poetry is the sick man of the arts. Precious, arid, obscure, it sometimes seems too feeble and withdrawn to be nursed back to life. Indeed, modern poetry has played the game of ten little Indians with its readers for so long that in recent years neither London nor New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Magazine in Manhattan | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Robert Cummings' mother was an ordained minister, and back in the family home in Joplin, Mo., she gave him a short sermon that he has never forgotten. Said she: "Your mind is like a light bulb. It's up to you whether you use it like a 60...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 1,000-Watt Bulb | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Three times the Cummings glow has threatened to flicker out when his career seemed to reach a dead end: 1) on Broadway, 2) in the movies, and 3) on television. But last week, at 46, he was up to a candlepower to brighten any mother's eye as he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 1,000-Watt Bulb | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Bachelor Photographer. Though he played in a few TV dramas (notably as the star of Studio One's courtroom thriller, 12 Angry Men), Bob's income was dwindling until in 1954 George Burns of Burns & Allen suggested the new series that has become the Bob Cummings Show. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 1,000-Watt Bulb | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Circus Highlights (Tues. 7:30 p.m., CBS). From Madison Square Garden, with Robert Cummings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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